martin luther king jr. gave his last sunday sermon just a few days before he was assassinated in memphis so i thought that was fitting for us to be here today, working to support and encourage all of our communities of color to do what we can do to be safe and help to end this pandemic that has devastated so many families in this country and the globe. today, disparities have been shown by covid-19. in pandemic has illustrated inequities in our society that we knew about for decades but really have been put in contrast in a rapid way. in just a year, over 500,000 americans have died. over 50% of all cases and almost half of all deaths are in persons of african-american, latino, is them -- hispanic background, or pacific islanders. the risk is greater because there's more disease, more diabetes, more obesity, more heart disease, but the reality is that the infections are more likely because people live get more crowded conditions. they work in jobs that do not allow the privilege of telework. they cannot sel

martin luther king, jr. said in a real sense, all life is interrelated. all men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality. tied in a single garment of destiny. what affects one directly affects all indirectly. we're all in this together and so i'm thankful today to recognize the faces that are on the platforms. that are representing the medical community, faith community, as well as even the educational community. and on this day, aid he i'd like to recognize and say thank you to county executive mark he will rich of montgomery county maryland. say thank you to dr. george askew, deputy chief administration officer for health and human services education, prince georges county, maryland. dr. joseph wright, chief medical officer of university of maryland capital health region. and the senior deputy director district of columbia department of health. i'd like to give a special thanks to the reverend thomas bowen, the mayor's ofls of religious affairs in district of columbia who did heavy lifting to help

their mothers and they credited their mothers with their success they celebrated their moms martin luther king jralked around everywhere saying you have the best mother in the world the calls are constantly james baldwin wanted to be married next to his mother in one of his dying wishes was to have a double thought where she would be buried next to him and whenever somebody came to his grave they would see how interconnected their lives were, there is an example after an example even malcolm x who had problematic scenes and how he feels about women, he also credits his mom with saying she was the first to teach him the discipline that he found in the nation of islam in many ways returning to her teaching before he even met mohammed. why is it if we have the evidence and i included in the book that we just erased it over time and part of it is an understanding of sexism in our society and racism in our society and intersexual oppression that black women are facing where people don't think that our lives are worthy of documentation and they're not worthy of celebrating. >> to watch the rest of the

martin luther king jr. everybody should know that the main message of martin luther king jr. ove each other, to learn to live together as brothers. i'll add as sisters. and if we bin to love each other g begin to love each other as a human race, then there's a lot of room for love. i'm just imagining. i've not spoken with justin, but martin luther jr. inspires love in his heart, and he loves his wife. so that's my take on it. i don't know if people can follow me down that -- pete: i like that. everybody else can take from it what they want, but i really like that particular perspective. i've got to get your take on one thing on fox nation, which i think you'll love. fox nation has a new series called charlton heston presents the bible, it's a four-part series that was made in 1992. fox nation now has it exclusively. let me play a quick clip and get your reaction to it. this is charlton heston on jerusalem. >> jerusalem is a holy city with three relations. the golden dome of the rock is built where abraham is said to have taken isaac and sacrificed him. jerusalem is, quite lite

senator jesse helms finally dropped his filibuster attempting to block the bill declaring martin luther king jr. day a federal holiday. do you remember? i'm hold enough to remember when that was controversial. when people fought against making dr. martin luther king's birthday a holiday. back then, it was controversial. now, we look back, because we have evolved and that's what society does. we look back, and we say, what the hell were we thinking? and one day, we will look back on this, with shame. and we will think the same thing. but this is worse. the filibuster has been used as a weapon to deny the rights of black-americans, for more than a century. and that is the truth. no matter how they try to wrap it in a bow. c codify it with law. it's voter suppression. it's the new jim crow. and if president biden -- president biden -- if he wants to get anything done. if he wants to pass the voting-rights bill, he may have to do something about it. i don't know what he is going to do. but he -- not may. he is going to have to do something about it. that's what it's going to come to. because withou

with me now, martin luther king iii, the son of the late dr. martin luther king jr. good to have you. good morning. >> good morning. >> so the reaction and the defense of this in georgia from the georgia top state senate republican is, well, this reduces cost, for the state and it relieves stress on election workers, it increases center that ballots are counted. what worries you most about what is proceeding and likely to become law in the state of georgia? >> what worries me most is this is a pattern of consistently suppressing the right to vote for a number of persons within our state, certainly in the black and brown and communities of color in general, perhaps with the student population. the fact of the matter is that even something like it may be illegal -- legal to bring a senior water or food who is in line for a long line, we should be expanding the process, not reducing the process. although the governor still has to sign it and has not, it is tragic that it passed in the senate and the house. >> i should note it was not that long ago, it was 2005 in the sta

senator jesse helms finally dropped his filibuster attempt to go block the bill declaring martin luther king jr. day a federal holiday. do you remember? i'm old enough to remember when that was controversial. when people fought against making dr. martin luther king's birthday a holiday. back then it was controversial. now we look back because we have evolved and that's what society does. we look back and we say what the hell were we thinking? and one day we will look back on this with shame and we will think the same thing, but this is worse. the filibuster has been used as a weapon to deny the rights of black americans for more than a century, and that is the truth. no matter how they try to wrap it in a bow, codify it with law, it's voter suppression. it's the new jim crow. and if president joe biden -- president joe biden, if he wants to pass the voting rights bill, he may have to do something about it. i don't know what he's going to do -- not may, he is going to have to do something about it. because without that bill, the assault on your vote will continue. the assault on one of your most

martin luther king jr. and so many people? >> i would say, if you read dr. thurman and you read dr. king, you will see the influence. in many ways, king was the person who applied much of what thurman talked about, in terms of social reality. he influenced many of the people you've mentioned. they were committed to social action. it was said that king carried with him, all the time, a copy of jesus and the disinherited. it involves social actions and they sought in his writings, this extraordinary understanding. >> he had his own spin on it with a way forward. >> they were dealing with the most critical issues in american society with racism and all kinds of separation. for king, in particular, the families knew each other. thurman new dr. king's father. they were at morehouse together. >> that's right point >> mrs. thurman new martin luther king's mother because they were both daughters of baptist ministers and met through baptist circles, and so on. the families knew each other and one thing that was very interesting with thurman, when dr. thurman was at boston university, king was

as martin luther king jr. told us in that letter from birmingham jail, injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. we have to stand for it today. liz: you know, that letter from jail, i did end reading that recently. everybody should -- the letter martin luther king jr. wrote from birmingham prison. you're in a unique position, of course, you were one of the top guys at citigroup before you decided to run for mayor. so you have that perspective. you look for that prism in part through the business eye. as we mentioned, delta airlines, coca-cola, home depot, jpmorgan has a bunch of branches all over georgia, citibank has 59 in atlanta alone. why do you see corporate america's role in this important? >> corporate america must take a leadership role. they're responsible for what takes place in the economy, and the economy has impact in our daily lives. we can't have any social justice without economic justice, so every leader in the corporate world must stand up to today. there is no option not to. this

. >> a transportation hub on second street between martin luther king jr. way and clay street. bus only lanes on broadway connecting downtown, jack london district. and chinatown and primarybetw tw oakland. >> projects project leaders talked about noise pollution at the stadium reducing so they can protect bird species making home nearby. >>> now it's time for his side of the story. >> to me taking a call in the or is something that occurs all the time. >> a sacramento area surgeon seen appearing in traffic court over zoom while in the operating room devrdsis actio. robableard ig. the storm that rle througheft i. >>> and i'm meteorologist drew tuma we are tracking a cold night tonight before more rain comes in the walter, did you know geico could save you hundreds on car insurance and a whole lot more? so what are you waiting for? world's strongest man martins licis to help you break down boxes? arrrggh! what am i gonna do to you box? arrgggh! you're going down! down to the recycling center! >>hey, thanks martins! yeah, you're welcome. geico. switch today and see all the ways y

lynch law en route 80 in this montgomery county, road made famous by martin luther king, jr. thousand that's marched from selma to montgomery. >> what impact did your father's death have on your family? >> we lost everything. but it was something we had to live with and adjust with and go on. >> reporter: elmore was one of untold numbers of successful black business owners throughout the country who found a way to thrive in the early 1900's. >> at the time of my father's death he had 40,000 in the bank in montgomery, estimated to be worth $500,000 now. >> their family story is one of generational wealth not just lost but stolen. a truth repeated across the country, a truth with severe consequences. today a typical white family has nearly eight times the wealth of their black counterparts. she says after her father's murder white debt collectors fraudulently claimed they were owed and took everything, plunging her family into poverty. >> the older brothers quit school and got jobs. my mother got a job working at the dry-cleaners. she put me through college working in laundry.

the best way to remember robert kennedy and all the other heroes that came before us like martin luther king jr., nelson mandela and cesar chavez who spent their life making the world a better place. host: is there a political leader building upon that coalition you saw in 1968 today? >> we have her own governor governor one - - governor newsome had the first filipino american nominated to be the attorney general of california and we do see an awakening of political leaders and also our president joe biden by a seeking kamala harris as vice president was a major step for those positions at a been ignored for people of color in the past. host: you didn't always want to become an activist. you wanted to be a dancer. what do you to dancing and music? >> i love dancing. especially flamenco and i could take dancing lessons. >> i started to lay to be a professional dancer i went to encourage everybody to dance. another is a pandemic you can dance at home afterwards you need to go out and dance physically and mentally healthy for everyone it also regenerates our souls to keep us healthier and happier.

martin luther king, jr. describe how that was like and your impressions and remembrances of that walk with dr. king. >> okay. i like to think that we were more colleagues than we were leader and follower in that sense. and dr. king was the person who more than any other person helped me support me when i was going through a period of trying to secure conscienious objection. we became friends because after working in mississippi we -- i became the program director in snick and as a result of that spent a lot of time working with sclc and corp and the naacp and other groups trying to raise the importance of black people to register to vote and getting community involvement. the problem is there were consequences for people to even register to vote. those consequences could be that they would be killed. they would be locked up, put in jail. they would lose their job, they would lose their home. they would lose everything. and that was just across the board. mississippi was a hostile kind of community. and we fe

. >> a transportation hub on second street between martin luther king jr. way and clay street. bus-only lanes on broadway connecting downtown, chinatown and jack london district, and sidewalk improvements alongined betweehe ballpark and west oakland. >> project leaders also talked about reducing noise pollution to protect bird species that make their home nearby. >>> now it is time for his side of the story. >> to me taking a call in the o.r. is something that occurs all the time. >> a sacramento area surgeon seen appearing in traffic court over zoom while in the operating room defends his actions. >>> and you probably heard it last night, that storm that rolled through the bay area, and it certainly left its mark. drew. >>> and i'm meteorologist drew tuma. that storm is long gone. we start out the weekend with a lot of sunshine, but more rain is in the forecast. we'll show you our >>> new developments now. an italian prosecutor is calling for two bay area men to be sentenced to life in sentence. finigan, the elder of san francisco, and gabriel christian natalio of the bay area

be an autobiography of sorts organized around the death of medgar evers and malcolm x and martin luther king jr.. it was supposed to be a retrospective of what has happened in the country but is new from his vantage point. it was in some ways a warning, on account of who was lost and why. a journey that is so distinctly american, given baldwin's beginnings. he was born in august of 1924 in the ghettos of harlem. he makes his way to paris to paris and becomes this extraordinary writer and witness of the black freedom movement. it was this summarizing account. that manuscript that was transcribed became the basis of my own -- of the critically acclaimed film. host: the professor is with us until 10:00 eastern this morning joining us to talk about his book and other issues. (202) 748-8001 the lime to use for republicans. (202) 748-8000 for democrats. all others, (202) 748-8002. i think when you and i spoke last year book was about to be published or was coming out at that time. a year that saw a great deal of racial unrest and violence in the u.s.. if you had to add an addendum to your book or som

in 1951, martin luther king jr. gave a 48 minute speech in this high school's auditorium. his speech came during the peak of the freedom rides, when black-and-white americans rode buses through the south together to protest segregation. dr. king was clear that the scourge of racism was not limited to the south. he said very clearly no section of our country can boast of clean hands. we know this and minnesota. our state was thrust into the international spotlight following the death of george floyd. our deep racial inequities were exposed for the world to see. for many white minnesotans, it was an awakening to a truth that minnesotans of color have known their entire lives. while our state ranks as one of the best places in the country for a white child to grow up, it often ranks as one of the worst for a child of color. as many minnesotans welcome getting back to normal, we must acknowledge this and recognize that for too many, getting back to normal is not good enough. it is not good enough for a single mother who is working two jobs just to feed her family. it is not go

martin luther king jr. describe how that was like and your impressions and remembrances of walking with dr. king. >> okay. i like to think we were more colleagues than leader and follower in that sense. and dr. king was the person who more than any other person helped me, support me when i was going through a period of trying to secure conscientious objection to the war at that particular time. so, we became friends because i became after working in mississippi, we -- i became the program director in sncc. as a result of that, spent a lot of time working with sclc and core and the naacp and a number of any number of groups to try to get -- race the conscious level of black people about the importance of registering to vote and getting more community involvement. the problem was, was that you had -- people -- there were consequences for people to even register to vote. those consequences would be they would be killed, they would be locked up, put in jail, they would lose their job, they would lose their home

the daughter of martin luther king jr. tweeted, royalty is not a shield from the despair of racism.mer bbc world correspondent said this is a stain on the royals that will endure. no amount of spin will erase this. >> who does that? people say families talk about who will look like who. family do not discuss, let's have a conversation about how dark his skin might be, and what that might mean. is he not going to be given the same birthrights as his cousins, prince george, charlotte, prince louis? what does the color of his skin have to do with jack all? ros: as you can imagine, there has been an awful lot of speculation about who in the royal family could have made the comment. oprah winfrey spoke to cbs on that. >> did you have another conversation about that? there is a big guessing game about who was. i thought it was very touching that harry is choosing to still protect the identity of whoever it was. >> he did not share the ideity with me but wanted to make sure that i knew, and if i had the opportunity to share it, that it was not his grandmother or grandfather that were part

they celebrated their monster martin luther king, jr.walked around everywhere saying he had the best month and will. james baldwin wanted to be buried next to his mother. he passed away before she did and one of his dying wishes was to have a double plot where she would be buried right next to him. whenever someone came to is great to see how interconnected their lives were here so there's example after example even malcolm x who said some problematic scenes with the way he feels about women, also credits his mom saying that she was the first to teach him the kind of discipline that is found in the nation of islam, in many ways he was returning to her teachings before he even met elijah muhammad. so why is it that if we have this evidence, and i include in the book, that we just erased it over time? part of it is this understanding of sexism in a society, of racism in a society, at the intersection impression that black women are facing what people don't think our lives are worthy of documentation and not worthy of celebrating. >> to wat

in fact some of the most legendary heroes you can name broke the law martin luther king jr spent time in jail for breaking the laws of that time harriet tubman would have been executed if he had been caught many labor organizers were executed for trying to get rights for workers george washington was the leader of an open rebellion against the laws of the land and yet he like our biggest hero dude we put up a giant penis that you just very young think about that for a 2nd he was one of the biggest lawbreakers ever and yet now he is this nation's. quite a shift i think but then again the future is female oh well. i can list all kinds of things that are still illegal that should not be blocking the shipment of weapons that will be used to kill hundreds of people blocking and oil pipeline that is literally causing our extinction trying to attend the presidential debates as a 3rd party candidate stopping the police officer from abusing someone is illegal stopping a police officer from unlawfully arresting someone is illegal punching a billionaire in the face punching a billionaire in the

government doesn't save martin luther king jr. government doesn't save senator robert kennedy.ernment can't win the vietnam war, government can't stop high interest rates, government can't stop gas lines. and so it seems -- and carter runs in '76 as basically an -- was an outsider. and was not wed today the idea of big government. he's a reformer. he's going to go after the corruption, he's going to cut taxes. he's much more of a populist, some would say a conservative, who see people who don't believe government is working for them anymore. reagan also sees this. carter attacks it from somewhat of the left, but not really, and reagan really is on the right. which is why they emerge as the two most interesting candidates of 1976. reagan to come to the convention loses the nomination to gerald ford by 69 delegates out of 2,069 cast in kansas city. for a lot of reasons, the mississippi delegation, the ohio delegation, the new york delegation, reagan is convinced that ford has not stolen the nomination, but not won entirely legitimately and now we're getting down into the weeds. t

i was talking with someone a couple days ago and reminded them that martin luther king jr.'s mother was shot in church. and when we have these symbols of hate, these white supremacists, they tend to go after our churches. burn down the churches. this gentleman researched history and went after the most historic african-american church. if people can't be safe in bible study, then they cannot be safe anywhere. and what we have here was a young man who had no business having a gun, was able to get a gun because the wrong information was keyed in. now, i will always believe that he knew the law well enough to intentionally give wrong information. by the time they found the right information, he had the gun. that's all we're doing here is saying, give officials time to do the background check. and then if it passes muster, get the gun. i want to thank those who have been involved in bringing this bill to the floor, and i hope that once again, as we did before, we can have bipartisan support to get it done. and i'm so glad that on the other side of the aisle, senator blumenthal h

when civil rights marches led to assassinations of icons like martin luther king jr and malcolm x. in part 2 will be speaking to avengers endgame hollywood actor frank grillo about his post covert 19 politics in cinema but 1st joining me now from new york is the co-founder of the black lives matter greater new york chapter who knew some walk thanks so much for coming on to these opening arguments today why is the case so important given the centuries you have articulated of pain for people of color and the americas. well this is where the rubber meets the more rope everyone across the world saw the george floyd killing everybody experience there playing everybody it with eyes with black people in that moment i guess right now is the true test of the american justice system we know that it's been biased we know that it's based on racism and now is the time to show if we progress or not has progress been made welcome we saw a service go to jail it's great to corporations say we love life people it's good that politicians say we're going to stand by black people but if derek shopping

. >> martin luther king jr., doctor king was leading people in a rally and a protest and they had bricks thrown at them but that is not an image that we see repeated a lot. was that just symbol northern the story isn't as interesting in the north or was it all of those others that you were talking about that was robbing attention. >> it was a simple explanation or the beginning which is that the movement up to selma had really been quite literally a demonstration that as you show to a broad through the north and west you mobilize support and people should be allowed to vote and get the political pressure to pass the voting rights act. then who are you going to appeal to to exert that pressure? you go to chicago and its mayor daley, very powerful democratic party. he's somebody that the johnson very much depends on so the geography i think very dramatically. i think this was recognized at the time you move to the north and now your basic tactic it formerly provided you some kind of support so you get people in the streets throwing bricks and so forth now there is no counterforce challengi

when civil rights marches led to assassinations of icons like martin luther king jr and malcolm x.in part 2 will be speaking to avengers endgame hollywood actor frank grillo about his post covert 19 politics in cinema but 1st joining me now from new york is the co-founder of the black lives matter greater new york chapter who knew some work thanks so much for coming on to these opening arguments today why is the case so important given and centuries you have articulated of pain for people of color and the americas well this is where the rubber meets the.

on the day of his assassination, martin luther king jr. stepped outside on the balcony and members of the southern christian leadership conference are standing, and one of the first to approach is reverend jesse jackson of rainbow push. he asks dr. king, what time is dinner? he says, we are going to be there shortly, and dr. king responds and says, reverend jackson, where is your tie? and reverend jackson says a prerequisite for dinner is an appetite, and i have that. the two men laugh. he is then introduced to a memphis musician called big doc branch and he asks dr. king what song he would like played at dinner that night and dr. king responds with "precious lord, take my hand" and i want you to play it pretty. his chauffeur says, you should grab a jacket. before martin luther king can respond, a shot rings out at 6:01 p.m. and dr. king falls wounded, lying here on the balcony. immediately when the shot rings out, memphis police are running this way. many of dr. king's associates, including reverend andrew young, bernard lee, jesse jackson

when civil rights marches led to assassinations of icons like martin luther king jr and malcolm x. in part 2 will be speaking to avengers endgame hollywood actor frank grillo about his post covert 19 politics in cinema but 1st joining me now from new york is the co-founder of the black as matter great in new york who knew some walk thanks so much for coming on to these opening arguments today why is the case so important given centuries you have articulated of pain for people of color in the americas. well this is where the rubber meets the more rope everyone across the world saw the george floyd chile everybody's experience they're saying everybody into thighs with black people in that moment i guess right now is the true test of the american justice system we know that it's been biased we know that it's based on racism and now is the time to show if we progress or not as progress being made will police officers go to jail it's great to corporations say we love black people who 'd is going to politicians say we're going to stand by black people but if eric shelving isn't convicted

when civil rights marches led to assassinations of icons like martin luther king jr and malcolm x. in part 2 will be speaking to a vengeance endgame hollywood actor frank grillo about his post covert 19 politics in cinema but 1st joining me now from new york is the co-founder of the black lives matter greater new york chapter who knew some work thanks so much for coming on to these opening arguments today why is the case so important given and centuries you have articulated of pain for people of color in the americas well this is where the rubber meets the road everyone cross the world saw that george for chile everybody experienced everybody the size which is black in that mold. i guess right now is the true test of the american justice system we know that it's been biased we know that it's based on racism and now is the time to show if we progress or not has progress been made welcome we saw a service go to jail it's great corporations say we love life people is good the politicians say we're going to stand by black people but if eric shopping is a convicted of murder any proceed

>> i think part of it is the image of martin luther king jr. as the leader and the figure head in all of this, if you're kind of in a sense the montgomery bus boycott is the origin point for him. and so if the story is not like he was the one leading this, he was the one pushing this forward, then that kind of makes things difficult for his narrative. >> right, very much. and that's in keeping with what was said about rosa parks in that simple idea. did i see another hand there? okay. absolutely. and then the other thing that we have to understand is that african-americans on the ground are forging some of these ideas, right, because it is politically expedient and safer to do so. and that's important to consider when you're thinking about a marginalized group or a marginalized group or an oppressed group trying to advance their politics within any political historical moment. the african-american women that we were talking about, particularly joanne robinson, she's still a middle class african-american in the south. i'm not saying that because

martin luther king jr. and through the eyes of others african-american and identity in american art. in her new book driving while black just out today professor soren tells the story of the indispensable green book, which both reshaped the african-american traveling experience throughout our segregated land and helped drive the nascent civil rights movement, please welcome gretchen. sorin to the free library of philadelphia. good evening. it's wonderful to be in this great city of philadelphia. and i'm i apologize that that rick wasn't able to join us this evening. he had a little bit of an emergency and he's in italy, but i hope that you'll enjoy the preview of our film that he sent along. so i'm going to talk. i'm sure many of you have seen the green book movie. and i'm going to talk this evening really about something a broader story and that story is about the automobile and the role that the automobile played in african-american life. i'd like you all to think about. how important your mobility is to

we lost bobby kennedy, and martin luther king jr. in '63. and then training as started to react better in a split second. they adopt this training to see how quickly they react. so the agents react almost instantaneously to the gun fire, but if you see what happened to kennedy and george wallace in '72, they were debacles. kennedy is shot in the neck and the driver continues drive straight, no evasive maneuvers at all. they were not trained to be trained without thinking. and meanwhile, they walked outside and checked everybody, and they had a bomb sniffing dog before the speech, and names of everyone who came in contact with the president. yet, they left an unscreened rope line 50 feet from the president and the guy has a gun. so it is incongruity or something going on where they are prepared for the worst, but they don't try to prevent the worst. that is something that after it is done, you have bunkers like this, and when the president visits the hotel that doesn't have a garage he can pull into or this kind of thing, what they do is they

martin luther king jr. preached. the congregation of john lewis who left us last year. the 2021 redrafting of the voting rights act is named this year. john lewis' pastor at ebenezer baptist. no. this wasn't like any other maiden speech you heard in the senate. it is something. it is really something to have a pastor with that kind of experience and talent take the floor of the senate as if it is a pulpit. my dear friend who i worked with now for more than a decade. somebody that watches the congress more closely and with intense focus on the details than any other living person i know who is not a member of the congress. after senator warnock gave the speech today he wrote to say that in his lifetime he never has seen a better maiden speech in the senate. i am going to play some of it for you now. you probably saw quotes and you heard that it happened. it is the kind of moment that can potentially move things or move the proverbial needle, and in this case on the vote and on the lie that the last election was stolen and we must respond to the lie with a material change

americans, those that don't work in the universities or for the joe biden administration, accept martin luther king jrmost famous preaccept, what matters is the content of our characters, not the color of our skin. the sneetches affirm this. the story is a plea for color blindness. that's why the forces of wokeness hate it and dr. seuss. when the people in charge cancel dr. seuss, what they're really trying to eliminate is a very specific kind of midcentury american culture a culture that championed ameitocracy and color blindness and the global achievement. these were once called liberal values. modern liberals don't want to be reminded they once believed any of this. if your kids are aloud to read -- allowed to read dr. seuss, they will know this was a differentent country not so long ago, a place where people tried hard not to hate each other, a place where the population was encouraged begged by leaders to reject identity politics in favor of universal values and the thing that connect us all. dr. seuss was never a major literary figure but his memory matters more than it ever has. the battle over

the government doesn't say john kennedy and the government doesn't say martin luther king, jr. the government doesn't say robert kennedy, senator robert kennedy and then in the '70s, with the vietnam war, government can't stop hyperinflation. government can't stop hyperinflation and it seems that carter runs in '76, and it was an outer, and it was not in the idea of big government and he's going it cut and some would sea almost con sfsh tiffs. they don't believe -- and krter merges from the left and the from 1976 and reagan to come to the convention loses the nomination to gerald ford by 69 delegate votes out of 2,269 cast in kansas city, and for a lot of reasons the mississippi delegation, the ohio delegation and the new york delegation, reagan is convinced that ford has not stolen the nomination and not won entirely legitimately and now we're getting down in the weeds, but this really whets reagan's appetite to run again even though he's, at the time, he's 65 years old and people said look, ronnie, you've been around the tack twice. you went twice and gave it your best shot a

martin luther king, jr., john lewis, thurgood marshall. they are giants and he was of the civil rights movement. well, this new book "the movement" challenges the popular narrative that it was charismatic leaders showing the way that drove revolutionary change. he argues it was the accumulated grievances of ordinary citizens that fueled and sustain the movement. we will dig into that and is thomas and are talking resubmit your questions via the q&a feature at the bottom of your screen and i will try my best to get as many of them as possible. to introduce our speaker thomas c. holt is professor emeritus of african-american history at the university of chicago. his previous books are children of fire, history of african-americans, and the problem of race in the 21st century. among his distinctions he is the macarthur genius awardee and former president of the american historical association and member of the american philosophical society. thank you so much for joining us to. >> thank you for having me. >> you began with two many women you

martin luther king, jr.; al vivian, son of reverend c.t. vivian; and john-miles lewis, son of congressman john lewis. the world health organization has wrapped up its investigation into the origins of the covid-19 pandemic, concluding in a new report that it's "very likely" the novel coronavirus passed from a bat to an intermediate animal host before emerging in humans in late 2019, with china's wildlife trade the most likely pathway. the who also found that it's possible, though less likely, that the virus passed directly from bats to humans, and that it was "extremely unlikely" that the virus emerged from a laboratory. globally, confirmed cases of covid-19 have topped 127 million with nearly 2.8 million deaths. in france, doctors warn icus in paris and elsewhere could soon be overwhelmed as authorities rush to speed up the rollout of vaccines amid an ongoing wave of cases. this is an intensive care doctor in the northern town of cambrai. >> we can't describe the situation as catastrophic in the moment. we were not expecting a resurgence o

shaquille o'neal, very smart business guy, you've got martin luther king iii to who, of course, was the elder son of martin luther king jrt as tom said, looking for good quality opportunities. there are reports that you're looking at scooter braun's entertainment company to get up to speed quickly on content. is the plan eventually to roll up companies like theirs or similar to theirs? >> well, we have a -- tom and i have a lot of different can business interests that we're pursuing. some of them are companies we're working on some of the strategies for that, some are companies best served by being owned in a private situation, not in a public, not publicly held. and so we're looking at those, at the media entertain thement, social media, social commerce space pretty carefully. and then we have our spac businesses, and we're focused on companies like we've described that will benefit from public ownership and should be public companies. and so we're doing both things, and they're somewhat separate endeavors to us. liz: okay. we could put up, i want to put up the spac right now because it is climbing as we speak here. the